Caridad, Author at Havana Times

Doesn’t the Eagle Catch Flies?

On Sunday the primary elections of the opposition parties in Venezuela were held. The hard work of candidate María Corina Machado bore fruit.

Not that power outages had died out, like the huge reptiles of the past. Power cuts were always sticking their heads out of our windows…

I’ve never seen her face, although she lives right on my block. I’ve seen the taxi she gets around in & the pick-up truck with tinted windows.

Teachers who protested a few days ago were accused of being traitors because they were asking for a decent wage…

A Venezuelan millionaire is locked up for a kidnapping. That might be an interesting headline or the premise for an action movie.

With great fanfare, the regional elections in Venezuela were held November 21, promoted by the government as “Mega-elections”.

Ever since I left Caracas, 4 years ago, I’ve wanted to be in contact with the earth & plants. I wanted to grow my food & breathe cleaner air.

I was surprised just like everyone else to see videos of Cubans in the streets to demand their rights for the first time in over 60 years.

The whole country is a disaster, but life outside out of Caracas is beyond the third world in terms of faltering basic essential services.

How to explain that the minimum wage in a country is one dollar a month and that it’s been like this for several years? How do people get by?